1. Jorge Arrate has been Minister of State in the governments of Chilean presidents Salvador Allende, Patricio Aylwin, and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle.
18 Facts About Jorge Arrate
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Jorge Arrate is the son of a former navy officer, and municipal employee Juan Gabriel Arrate Ducoing and Ines Mac-Niven Seymour.
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Jorge Arrate spent his early years in the Santiago neighborhood of Plaza Brasil.
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Jorge Arrate entered law school at the University of Chile in 1958 and graduated in 1964.
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Jorge Arrate obtained the degree of Master of Arts in economics.
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Jorge Arrate returned home to the Institute of Economics of the University of Chile to wrote his doctoral thesis, which he never completed.
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Jorge Arrate was married for the third time with writer Diamela Eltit.
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Jorge Arrate has two children from his first marriage with attorney Ana Maria Fernandez.
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Jorge Arrate held teaching university functions since 1966, first at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, then at the School of Sociology of the Catholic University and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Chile.
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Jorge Arrate directed the center, continuously subsidized by the Dutch government of different political orientation from its founding until 1991.
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Jorge Arrate led the eight International Summer School in Rotterdam, Mendoza, Argentina and Santiago, organized by the institute.
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In 1992, Jorge Arrate was the first director of the School of Public Administration at the University of Santiago.
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Jorge Arrate started his political career in 1957, serving secretary-general of the Federation of Secondary Students of Santiago.
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Jorge Arrate was a member of the Central Committee for the first time in 1978 and continued as a member of that body for twenty years.
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Jorge Arrate accepted this challenge, focusing its efforts on the "reconstruction of a political project that proposes sweeping political and social changes in Chilean society", change the economic model and put an end to the "democracy exclusive that exists today".
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Days later, Jorge Arrate joins the Communist Party of Chile for the sole purpose of complying with the electoral law.
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Jorge Arrate chaired the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Culture, the Andres Bello and American Conference of Ministers of Education.
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Jorge Arrate is currently a member of the Whitney R Harris World Law Institute's International Council.